As a Planner it is not your job to determine what type of crane to use on a job, it is for a rigging superintendant that is trained to do that job and has the experience.

It is however your job to load the schedule activities with the cranes requirement that was determined by the qualified people. This will tell you in your histogram how many cranes you require per area for example for the length of your project

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In producing a programme, you should allow for a crane (however big it is) to install about 24 pieces of steel per day between Ground and 20 metres above, going down to 21 pieces per day above that up to 40 metres above ground, for an 8 hour day. These are average rates allowing for offloading steel from lorries and laying out in installation sequence before erection.
You need to look at the plans and see where you can site cranes, and look at the steel and see where is the heaviest lift. From this you can determine how big a crane (or number of cranes) you will need. Then you obtain the dimensions of the size of crane you have decided you will need and plot that on the General Arrangement drawings. You can then work out how long you will need to erect the steelwork, and how many times you need to move the crane, or how many cranes you need to build the project out. You may even query the maximum size of piece and propose either increases or decreases to maximise efficiency
By all means ask the Construction Superintendent how he or she would build it, and what size / how many cranes they would use, but you need to constantly challenge what you are told by asking the right questions in order to see if you agree with the method and timing.
These are all planners tasks, while communicating with the remainder of the team. Just putting information into the programme (schedule) from others without question makes you a computer jockey not a planner.